Do you know what that little plate of blurry grossness is, my friends? That is my latest conquest in my "Before I'm 30" list...one that I would just as soon forget. I lucked out by finding myself at a quiet and upscale little sushi restaurant on Friday night with a date who was just as clueless as I to the delicate yet acquired taste of this dish (and also not-immune to my batted-eyelashed pleas to join me in my adventure). The Japanese waitress scoffed at us mildly when we ordered it, and we told her when she dropped the plate of that it was both of our first tastes, hoping it would endear us to her a little. It didn't. As soon as I stuffed the large mouthful into my maw, she flounced over and asked me how I liked it, to which I could only gesture with a enthusiastic thumbs up, when really all I wanted to do was spit the mushy mess into my napkin. Somehow I swallowed, though, and pleaded ignorance and apologies to my date, who was equally aghast at the texture of this supposed delicacy.
We cleansed our newly matured palates with cold beer, warm sake, and later two of the largest cupcakes I've ever laid my wide eyes on. I think I'm going to need to follow this tick off my list with something a bit more pleasant, such as making out on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland or going camping.
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uni's one of those things that really needs to be super-fresh if tried as sushi. it's so rich on its own it's difficult to detect any complexity of flavour outside of high fattiness in low tide. if you ever want to give it a chance again, try it as a component to a cooked dish, not as the main ingredient. uni in a cream sauce with shellfish mixed in over pasta is a nice way to incorporate the flavour without it overwhelming. anchor&hope in SF do a really nice warm sea urchin and dungeness crab in pureed potatoes with lemon butter. that kinda makes it worth trying again.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by "uni". I'm an English girl living in France and I assumed "uni" meant "university".
Is it a kind of fish ? Or spice ?
Sea urchin gonads?! Mmm-mmm, my mouth is watering.
barf
I'm crazy for sushi, I'll eat smelt eggs until I burst. But I didn't get uni. It just had virtually no taste, to me.
Let me know when you go to Disneyland...
i almost threw up on a first date once because of uni.
My dad would tell you it built character.
xoxo
Sushi is for pretentious assholes. I'm sure someone out there actually likes it, though. Maybe.
Sea Urchin is something it seems only enjoyed by women!
Congrats to you for trying it!
I personally dig it.
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